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Sittin' in the kitchen, a house in Macon
Loretta's singing on the radio
Smell of coffee, eggs and bacon
Car wheels on a gravel road
(Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Lucinda Williams)
So the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, as well as the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions are now a part of the thousand-year old Russian state, simply by putting a couple of signatures on a piece of paper.
You can find a link to the text of the speech given by Putin for the happy occasion here, but suffice to say that about 3/4th of the material is about how the West is responsible for genocide, shelling, blockades, criminal policy, hatred for Russia, hatred for everything Russian, attempts to break up Russia, dreaming about breaking up Russia, condemning the Russian people to poverty and destruction, condemning the rest of the world to poverty and destruction, plundering the world, total de-sovereignisation, destroying entire states, humanitarian disasters, devastation, ruins, millions of wrecked and mangled human lives, terrorist enclaves, social disaster zones, protectorates, colonies and semi-colonies, nonsens, utter deceit, double or triple standards, dirty deception, wants to turn us all into soulless slaves, denying national sovereignty, denying international law, has features of totalitarianism, despotism, apartheid, political nationalism, racism, started its colonial policy back in the Middle Ages, followed by the worldwide slave trade, genocide of the Indian tribes in America, the Wars of England and France against China, the plunder of India and Africa, got entire nations hooked on drugs and purposefully exterminated entire ethnic groups for the sake of grabbing land and resources, hunting people like animals. And they probably tripped your grandmother down the stairs too.
Perhaps a couple of pictures speak louder than all those words. Did you know Putin likes to tickle big people?
The festivities ofcourse couldn't pass without the casual mentioning of nuclear war, and were given extra stature by raping a critical poet with a dumbbell.
Just another day at the Kremlin.
(Score: 0, Spam) by aristarchus 2 on Saturday October 08 2022, @03:45AM (2 children)
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: SN is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SN community when IDC confirmed that SN posting has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of Slashdot. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SN has lost more users, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SN is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in a recent survey of news aggregators.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SN's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SN faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SN because SN is dying. Things are looking very bad for SN. As many of us are already aware, SN continues to lose users and subscribers. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SN is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its users. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time SN admins c0lo and The Mighty Buzzard only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SN is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Slashdot leader whipslash states that there are 7000 users of Slashdot. How many users of Pipedot are there? Let's see. The number of Slashdot versus Pipedot posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Pipedot users. SN posts on Usenet are about one hundredth of the volume of Pipedot posts. Therefore there are about 14 users of SN. A recent article put Hacker News at about 80 percent of the news aggregator market. Therefore there are (7000+1400)*4 = 33600 Hacker News users. This is consistent with the number of Hacker News Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of NCommander, abysmal management and so on, SN was taken over by martyb who is another troubled admin. Now martyb is also gone, and SN's corpse was turned over to Janrinok the Censor.
All major surveys show that SN has steadily declined in users and comments. SN is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SN is to survive at all it will be among gun nuts like Runaway and khallow. SN continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save SN from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SN is dead.
Fact: SN is dying
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 08 2022, @11:29PM (1 child)
Sad to find out you are apk. After years condemning the alt-right you've become a whiny shadow of them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2022, @11:43AM
Just to be clear, that ain't aristarchus. You can tell by the vocabulary and inflection. And the Seminology and looseness with accusations.